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The. Hell would be fixed.

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I am Frank, and you are German. Well, hello.

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And today we got a lot to cover. John Lithgow is going to be coming to Harry Potter.

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We got Rings of Power stuff. Main thing, though, we're going to do

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today is talking about Captain America Brave New World.

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Jonathan has a watch that we're gonna be doing a spoiler free review to start things off with,

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and then we're going to follow that up with a segment from Challenge Accepted,

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where me and Thomas talked about the movie in detail.

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All the spoilers for an hour. So I'm going to cut in about 15 minutes to that one

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so you guys can get a little vibe for it and then go follow up over there.

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And again, there's timestamps, everything in the notes.

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So if you want to just click around to like jump to the review,

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you're welcome to do that as well. Jonathan how is your Valentine's Day man?

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It was good. I was planning or hoping to go see the Captain America movie, and then,

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I don't know, just the whole plans and schedule didn't work out, so

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unfortunately, I didn't get to go see it. But we stayed home and watched a sappy romance movie.

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Oh. The proposal. That's one the wife got to choose. The movie.

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Yeah, but yeah, it was good and can't complain for Father's Day.

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You get to pick it there right? That's good.

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Yeah, it was definitely a busy weekend, actually.

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The movie outperformed its expectations as we're recording this right now.

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They plan on it making 70 and 80,000, and it's already breaking 100,000.

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100 million. I'm sorry. Million. So it already is doing better than than before.

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I think people are just hungry for some Marvel movies. Last year, all we had was Deadpool and over in and this one we have three coming.

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So I think people are just excited for that. Let's, touch on some network updates real quick.

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We have our last podcast coming back this week, barring everybody

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getting sick right now, we're all passing around the same cold or whatever.

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So we'll know soon. Again, changes have to just did the the, full spoiler filled review

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for this movie, but also doing John Williams

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mouth over there in the last one is going to be Superman. And that's coming out this week as well.

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And then headlines is returning. So, I had shutter the headlines because I wanted to focus on Law Master,

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Let's get into the news again.

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Kind of kind of quick through these. So but first off, John Lithgow, you remember John Lithgow.

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He's he's like above in the sun is up. Yeah, yeah.

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Such an awesome actor. So he's set to play Dumbledore for HBO's Harry Potter series.

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This this cast is looking pretty good for his Harry Potter series,

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but he is an American actor. He has played a British, character a few times in the past.

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What do you think about him playing such an iconic British role?

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Yeah, I think I think it'll definitely I mean, he's got the acting chops.

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I don't doubt that. So it may be a little bit of a stretch for him because he's it,

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you know, it's, it doesn't seem like an easy fit.

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When you see his other characters that he's well known for,

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you just wouldn't say that's Dumbledore. It's.

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Yeah, it's kind of, out there for him, but I think he can handle it.

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I think he can do it. I imagine, though, I don't know, I haven't read the Harry Potter books, so

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I'm sure there's more depth to the character

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than what we've seen in the other Harry Potter movies.

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But I'm wondering if there's a little bit of a quirkiness to him.

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John Lithgow could definitely exploit that and play that version of the character

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a lot better. I think. But I don't know.

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Do you know more about, Dumbledore from any of the books or anything like that?

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You know, from the books? No, I, I, I assume that they're going to bring in the stuff

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that they have said, that they're gonna bring in everything from the book.

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So they're going to be they're gonna be telling the entire story over ten years,

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so they're going to have time to pull everything, probably add

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things that are not even in the books, but they're definitely using all of it.

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So I think they're we're going to have more Dumbledore than we had in the past.

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And John Lithgow played Winston Churchill for the Crown series

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and did an excellent job of like, the old British guy.

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So even if you wanted to just play straight like that, like just an old British guy with no whimsy at all, I think he could.

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But John Lithgow, when he plays arch,

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when he adds a little bit of that villainy in his voice is so fun.

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So I'm really hoping they let him kind of play around with that.

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That'd be cool. And Dumbledore is more like warm, though, right?

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He's regal in a mentor, but also very personable, isn't he?

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With I get the I get the vibes of he is,

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but underneath that he's also a little rebel, you know?

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Yeah. Okay. Like the Ministry of Magic is always like, here are the rules.

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And he's always like, hey, Harry, here's our, you know, whatever.

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Here's the time, Turner, you know. Yeah, go starts in this mischief for me and stuff like that.

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Like he's got his little army. And so I think I think something like that John Lithgow could really play with

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and have fun. Yeah, it'd be cool.

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Rings of power has been renewed, so this is up in the air.

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I know people are like, oh, it's kind of tough to come back. It didn't necessarily hit as hard as it's supposed to, but it has been renewed.

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And, what they're doing this time, they're going to do a time jump and jump

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right into the War of the elves, humans and dwarves.

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This is Sauron. I have you been watching Rings of Power? Don't.

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No, but I think when it started, I didn't have Prime, and I have it

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now, so I think it's time to binge it and get, Got it.

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Unfortunately for me, it doesn't just. It doesn't grab me like House of the Dragon does a game of Thrones did.

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I don't know what it is. I think the dialog is a little bit too high fantasy,

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where it's a lot more like, oh, it's a Lord of the rings, right?

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It's Lord of the rings speech. And I just, I love me some arguing over a thing of wine

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in Game of Thrones, you know? Does it have like, a deep dramatic backstory or is it just kind of

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you think the writing is just a little too late for what you're looking for?

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I would not say dramatic. It is very, very high fantasy.

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Like the backstory of all this stuff is like,

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oh yeah, I fought this war against him, you know, 2000 years ago

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when I was training as an elf here, everything is kind of that way.

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There is no I mean, like, I can't even think of, like, scandals necessarily.

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That would be I can't really think of a high scandal.

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I know that one of the villains, he has a bit of a scandal

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because he's like, was part of Sauron, and then he leads the orcs on his own.

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But that was pretty weak. It was not in comparison to everything else.

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And I just don't know if Lord of the rings lends itself to TV shows very well.

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I think it's better for those big movies because it's all about the big battles and stuff too.

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That's a shame. It sounds like they need to work on on the writing, like the,

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you know, actual, translating the book to the screen.

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It takes a little bit of work when you've seen it in other stuff,

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where they massage it a little bit and make it fit better.

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But hopefully season three is, taking a turn.

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And with the direction again, they're. Doing a time job and jumping right into a battle.

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It feels like they were like, look, we just got to put the money into this

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and get this thing into a big war immediately.

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I talked to a couple of friends, alma,

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reacts on TikTok, guys, check her videos out.

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But she was saying she expected it to be renewed and expected it to do a time jump.

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Because the next thing that happens in the story would be that, yeah,

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there's plenty of time, but like, it's just preamble of getting ready for war.

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The next like, actually, that is okay, let's jump into war.

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And even House of Dragons just confirmed this week as well

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that when they come back, it'll be in the middle of the bloodiest war, which I knew that because of the book.

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But they were like appeasing people who didn't know what happened to why else

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and ended with nothing. At the end of season two.

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And like, well, because all the budgets in the beginning of season three

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with two gigantic wars and it's like, okay, but you got a lot of promise

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you just made, you know? Yeah, I was still so disappointed at the end of the season. Yeah.

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You spent the entire episode teasing it.

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This fight is going to start in the entire episode, and then it didn't start.

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And you have to wait for the next season. Yeah. Come on. That's.

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Which is in 2026. Such a letdown. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. So long away.

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So yeah. Rings of Power is coming back guys. It's up.

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We've got to make sure we give it a shot. Everybody. We want it to be successful. It's worth it.

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Netflix is developing their own fantasy series now.

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We originally had talked about this on Peacock.

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Sorry when Paramount Plus was trying to do it.

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Paramount plus couldn't make it actually happen. So Netflix bought the rights to it.

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Does the Dragons of the Forgotten Realms? It's a live action series set in Dungeons and Dragons.

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Since last time we talked about this, Jonathan, you are now a D and D player.

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So with your knowledge in D and D at this point,

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what is it that you would want to see out of a D&D series?

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Again, remember, you're not just for the fans. You got to go for the mainstream people too.

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I mean, so if you can kind of teach, you need a world build to me

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because the game is so, so free against is ever changing.

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It kind of we build it as we play, but there is rules

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and there is a foundation that it's built on. So I think if you really explain that foundation,

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then the rest of the story can be almost anything.

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I mean, it can be obviously, if that's still right, a fun story, right?

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I think having those, those core like anchors in the ground

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is going to be pivotal, a big part to, to actually making it believable.

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Yeah. So the movie I thought did a pretty good job with that. Right.

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It was like, this is well, this is the Dungeons Dragons world.

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We're going to tell a small story that fits within it.

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And the rules apply.

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Would you want them to do something similar to that or what?

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I mean, a lot of the comments are wanting to actually pull from the actual books, like, you know, there are books

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you could use as a DM to run your campaign and like we in our current campaign,

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we are kind of half using one book and I'm half making up the rest of it.

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Would you think that that's better for them?

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And like, oh, he's going to source material like. That would be like, following a comic book, right?

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We've seen great success in that, but we've also seen where they stick a little bit too strictly to the comic book.

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Yeah. And it doesn't do good on, on screen.

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So I think you could use the D&D books as the source material,

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but it still needs to be well adapted to the screen,

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or the mainstream audience won't care for it though.

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And you might be better off just having movie writers write the story.

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And but they have to be. They have to study what it's going to be built

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into the type of world and rules and stuff like that. It's going to be an.

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But it seems like the type of thing where it the story,

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especially being that it's a series and not just a movie,

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will rely so much on the characters, which is exactly

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what the player experience is anyways. That's your character.

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The building of your character's growth is what it's all about.

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So I mean, it's like it's made for a series.

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We are introduced to these characters and how they fit

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within the world around them, and then we watch them grow.

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And then hopefully to make it fun and interesting,

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we're going to see some of them die off in dramatic scenes and stuff like that.

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But, you know, as it goes on, they're going to be replaced with other ones.

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Maybe at the end of a season, the whole group dies off,

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but then the next season we're in the same world, the same terror is, you know, terrorizing the world or whatever.

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And we just find a different group of people that happen to have maybe they maybe even Southern Cross

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paths at one point, but they were going different directions.

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And now it's like, okay, we're following these guys because we're still in the same world.

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And the players that have created new characters, pretty much.

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And there are a lot of really cool named people, a lot named villains or whatever, you know, like the Power Ranger or whatever.

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I think having them in the world, but not necessarily the focus of the main

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story, is good, so that you can follow these characters

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that are like like you would be as a player,

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just randomly adventure in the world, and you'll run into all the really famous people that are in the stories.

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I think that's probably the most freeing way to do it, the way you can have the most flexibility.

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And one of the things I would really like to see again,

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brought up in the TikTok comments that we were discussing this on,

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make playable characters with all the people that are on this TV.

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Oh, I really like this character played by whomever, Christopher,

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Chris Pine or whatever. And then they print out, they give you a character

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sheet for him to if you want to like Adam and you guys campaign

11:13

and then like that, be such a blast. You guys run into random people you like on

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like you hear playing. Oh, you guys just ran into 11

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from Stranger Things, you know, that kind of thing.

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So I think that would be a fun way to bring in the group. Yeah, that would be cool.

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Now, as a D&D player, what are some of the things

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that D&D can do that other TV shows don't really have the freedom for?

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Like for example, I'll, I'll say I'll start us off with,

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other shows have a set narrative and the ability to kind of

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just invent on a fly the DM having to do that, having this Overlord and multiple stages of

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I think the openness of D&D lends itself a lot more to the creativity

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of the writers. One of the biggest problems with Game of Thrones

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is they got ahead of the writer George R.R. Martin, and so they had to make it up

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and the fans are always like, well, it's not as good as that.

11:56

And then if that happens with this, it's like, yeah, that's fine.

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No, that's just how his campaign's going is. It's not as good as that one.

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But that's just how the campaign went. I think that's great.

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From the view of the player, it's somebody who knows D&D,

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but I don't think the mainstream audience will understand that.

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So they'll they'll fall off. But yeah.

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Yeah. Even like you're saying like, oh, you can namedrop these guys that are in the books in some way, that's great for us.

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If you recognize that name, then then you get that Easter egg

12:20

and you have that inside joke or whatever it is, but everybody else is looking.

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Turn around, look at each other. Like, who? Who the heck is that guy? Why should I?

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I know by the score or something like that.

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I should care about that name, but I have no idea who he is.

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So I got to be careful doing that kind of thing.

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Honestly, we I hate to say it, but I think we got to lean towards

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appeasing the mainstream just so this can continue and make the money.

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And, you know, be on screen exposing people to a version of D&D.

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Yeah, that might get them to take it home and play it and try it out.

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And then because watching it on TV isn't nearly as fun as playing the game itself.

12:56

So if if you can have a whitewashed version of it

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that gets people's interest enough for them to try it out,

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that's totally worth it. I don't, I won't, I won't feel bad that it's been bastardized a little bit.

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If it means it gets more people playing it at home, because that's where it's really at.

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You guys are in such a big spot right now for you guys.

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Campaign. You just secured your basically fortress in the hell,

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and we're going to be doing it in a not in person this next segment.

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So because we have a pregnancy coming up real soon, shout out to Daniel.

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But yeah, that'll be to see how that happens. We have a birth coming up. The pregnancy already.

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So yeah, that's what I bet. Yeah. I mean I'm trying, but it's not working.

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But. Yeah. So, you guys have this big battle coming up and like,

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that book in particular would be fantastic. That's like a whole season, season of it

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where you fight off, you know, House armies and whatnot.

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So it's always exciting. And we've talked before about my next character.

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I think I'm changing it again already, though, to be a little more,

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serious of a character not so crazy and wacky fit that a dialog a little easier.

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But I'm still excited to start another campaign at some point in the near future.

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Well, we've been talking about doing multiple campaigns.

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That's definitely something that could happen. And with this one you guys have gotten, I think you guys have gotten where

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you're doing the same things like twice, which is so late two weeks.

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I gotta ramp it up a little bit. I got I got to throw a little more at the wall.

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It's hard because I can't tell when squeaks is going to do some.

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Squeaks is always like trying to get everybody killed,

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and then there's always somebody that keep doing that

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where he's just like, I'm going to walk in front of this mirror. I'm like, you've seen the mirrors blow people up. What are you doing.

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Into the room of of enemies or whatever it is, like, are you sure about.

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That? So it's like, I can't wrap it up too hard because he's going to pull the whole thing.

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It's a little tricky. Okay, more death saving throws.

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All right. HBO also confirms that they're doing

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they have planned for seasons for The Last of Us.

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So the last was coming back in April, which, God, I'm sorry.

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Season three in April. Right. Two.

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Oh, okay. Dang, I know, I don't know.

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Is it so do we have three more seasons planned starting.

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You know, starting with that one. Yeah. That's great. So, right now there are two games for The Last of Us.

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The first game covered the first season. And what we've been hearing is the second game will cover seasons

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two and three, but we didn't know if they're going to do any more seasons.

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Now we know what they're going to do for their multiple options.

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Stretch the second game out even farther because they're already stretching it

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for two seasons. Stretch it for three seasons instead, or just make up a story that,

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like, kind of gives everybody closure for the third season,

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and maybe they'll tell a story for a third game

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that's not even on the horizon at all.

15:29

You know, I know you don't know The Last of Us very well.

15:31

The video game version. What from this story are you wanting to see

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that you don't see in other zombie shows? What we see in most zombie shows is like.

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Like, you're following the same people for a while.

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They're, you know, facing different challenges.

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And at some point we see them die off and they're kind of handing off

15:48

the torch to the next group, or at least couple people that carry it on.

15:52

Yeah. So and we especially, we see that all the time in video games, too.

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After a couple games, a lot of times your main characters have changed.

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Well, sometimes not all the time, but,

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so that's what I'm kind of worried that if they try to continue

16:05

for so many seasons, we're going to end up having to replace characters and have,

16:09

you know, I mean, you're fighting a, a horde of zombies is, you know, last long.

16:15

So, yeah, I don't want to get to the point that everybody's been replaced.

16:18

Yeah. But, yeah, I don't I don't know, it's kind of.

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I think it'd be best if they do write a good conclusion, in season three.

16:27

Which is nice, because they kind of have, like a set number of seasons, so they could do that.

16:31

It's not like Walking Dead or it's like, oh, we can go to 11 if we keep pushing type of thing.

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And it's like, yeah, we feel like they keep.

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Yeah, exactly. The writing gets thinner and thinner and know and I like the idea

16:40

of stretching out the second arm into a full into or the.

16:44

Yeah, second game into two seasons. Because a lot of video games, you don't

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get as much character development as you would in a movie or TV show.

16:50

Yeah. So to be able to spend the time getting to know the characters,

16:53

the more time you spend with the character on screen and, you know,

16:56

they're, diving into their backstory and everything, the more it kills you

17:00

when they die or or when they're just, you know, they have one bullet left in the gun,

17:04

and they have to find a way to get out of that building. So my the stakes

17:08

weigh on you a lot more when you're more invested in the character.

17:10

So I think that's a good core to me.

17:13

One of the things that we get like, I know this isn't technically zombies, it's a fungal thing.

17:17

We never see a cure. Like there's never a cure that successfully happens or like that.

17:22

How nice would it be if they actually find a cure? And then we see them, like save the World.

17:25

It's always like we're going to start again and it's going to suck.

17:28

But what if they're like, oh, if we spray

17:31

the stuff on the guys that scream at us, it fixes them.

17:34

And so I wouldn't mind them figuring that out in this one.

17:37

Find a, an anti fungus that you spray on, you know, animals or whatever.

17:41

And as they spread, it's killing the, the fungus and.

17:44

Yeah, get into the bird supplier something like that.

17:46

And they go crazy. Oh that'd be pretty cool. Yeah. Oh yeah. They're all a network.

17:50

So it it'd be reasonable to think if you, you put an antivirus in one spot,

17:54

it's going to spread across the network pretty quickly.

17:57

Yeah, yeah. Academy Award nominee for best original screenplay

18:02

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18:19

Let's go ahead and get into our Captain America Brave New World review.

18:23

All right, so we're going to be starting off with a spoiler free review, guys.

18:25

And then we'll switch over to spoilers.

18:27

John. What we're going to do is when have you asked me questions

18:29

I'll kind of give a rundown for, you know, reaction video and ask me questions.

18:33

I'll answer and we'll go from there. Obviously the same Wilson as Captain America,

18:37

he is struggling with his identity in this new role.

18:40

One of the things that they bring up a lot is the fact that, like, I'm not a super soldier,

18:44

and it's one of the things like when you hear about Sam

18:47

Wilson being Captain America, that's one of the things that the fans would ask.

18:50

Well, it's it's brought up in the movie as well, and they do address it.

18:53

We have his his relationship with Thaddeus Ross, who's now President.

18:56

Ross himself is trying to be a better person,

18:58

which is very different for Thaddeus. Normally in the comic books, he's always just a jerk.

19:02

And, you know, he's not trying to just hunt down hawks all the time.

19:05

There is tension over the celestial in Eternals that came up out of the ocean.

19:10

It's kind of like this, like New Island that was formerly now called Celestial Item Island,

19:14

and they discover that it is made out of adamantium.

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So the crux of the entire movie is who's going to control the adamantium?

19:21

How do we divide this up amongst the nations?

19:24

Ross trying to become a good person and a good president.

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And in Captain America, like trying to solidify his his name as Captain America.

19:31

That's what we're at. And there's there's other villains here on the board and stuff like that.

19:34

But, you know. I like it. So in this, do they explain that

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adamantium is actually stronger than vibranium?

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What's nice is they they talk about vibranium, like he's doing this like presentation.

19:46

He talks about vibranium as like this, like so good metal.

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And he's like, now we have adamantium. And with this, we can do these things.

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So it's not that. It's like, better than vibranium.

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It's just that it's different than vibranium and we have access to it.

19:59

And so it's kind of like, hey, this stuff's harder than vibranium.

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And I might not have the, you know, vibration aspects of it or whatever, but yeah, there's a lot to it.

20:07

So Wolverine's claws against Captain Shield, what happens?

20:10

I you know, I know there's an answer somewhere, but I think it's like a rock and a hard place.

20:14

Yeah. Okay. That's like we do. Cancel each other out.

20:17

That's great. Well, do you see vibranium cut Hulk's skin in this movie?

20:21

But I know adamantium can't as well. I would. They I would like to think that they're equal to each other.

20:25

Then they can both harm each other.

20:28

They could both puncture each other. So I imagine. Yeah. Wolverine jumps over and stabs

20:31

and gets blades like a third of the way, or maybe even halfway into the shield, but

20:35

then cap rips it from him and it breaks the blades off in the shield.

20:38

Let's let's ask the question, can Hulk or can?

20:40

Okay. All right folks, so we're going to ChatGPT with this question.

20:44

There we go. Can Wolverine's blades damage Captain America's shield?

20:49

So here it says in Marvel or Captain America, shield is made of a unique

20:53

vibranium alloy that absorbs energy and is virtually indestructible.

20:56

While Wolverine's adamantium claws are incredibly sharp and durable,

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they aren't depicted as being able to damage the shield and vibranium

21:03

energy absorption abilities or properties,

21:06

meaning that even an attack from Wolverine's claws don't leave a mark.

21:09

There's something there to it. Okay, that's good to know. Okay.

21:12

Any other questions on what's next? Yeah. So how was the pacing in this movie?

21:15

I know a lot of the Marvel movies kind of are up and down.

21:18

Some of them are maintain a an action packed. Yeah.

21:21

Great question. But I was just one film.

21:24

So this one it is a spy thriller. So like you expect seven or a mission impossible or Winter soldier.

21:29

There are fight scenes that move you from one point to another point,

21:32

and all the types of fight scenes are like a different locales, you know,

21:35

like, oh, this one's in, you know, Indian Ocean and stuff like that.

21:39

So, yeah, there are different fights. And then there are two, ending fight scenes.

21:44

The one and I really, really like about it as each the ending fight scenes

21:47

really show off the two different versions of Captain America.

21:50

One of them is very much Falcon's abilities.

21:52

The other one is very much, I got a shield type of fight.

21:56

Kind of abilities. One thing I don't like about some action movies is

22:00

they seem like, they got big explosions and stuff for no reason.

22:04

There seem like they're just trying to entertain you with

22:07

explosions with, you know, blowing up cars and stuff. It, especially movies like Fast and Furious is best example to me.

22:13

The later ones, does it seem like it has much of that, or is it more grounded in the,

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you know, deep story that really keeps it moving forward?

22:22

I would say it's it's the characters that keep it going forward.

22:25

Each of these characters have very,

22:29

very complex reasonings for what they're doing,

22:32

like for President Ross, for Thunderbolt Ross in the comic books.

22:35

And what we know so far from the MCU is he's just like a guy

22:37

who's trying to control everything through the military. And in this one, this isn't a spoiler.

22:41

He is just trying to be a better person for his daughter, who's kind of like,

22:45

obviously, what with, Hulk. This movie reference is 2000 and it talk a lot.

22:49

So if you guys remember that old ass movie, it references it.

22:52

And so he's just trying to be a better person.

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And it's very hard for Thaddeus Ross. It's just not the kind of person he is.

22:57

He's a military man and a hunter.

22:59

So that's the kind of thing that's pushing this is those kind of stories

23:02

like again, with with Sam Wilson. It's the identity not being a super soldier, not being Steve Rogers, man.

23:08

Yeah. Okay. Do you think in this there was any characters or even, like, small, side

23:13

plot arcs that were just not necessary that they kind of added is just filler.

23:18

So one of the villains is the leader, and, we know that there is some shoots after

23:22

there was they shot most of it before the strikes

23:24

and then that strikes and they while they were on strike, they buried the script a little bit, and then they shut up afterwards.

23:30

And you could tell was like a lot of the scenes were in the leaders are cool character, sure, but,

23:35

I think he felt a little bit tacked on and not super needed.

23:40

I would say that one of the characters that are on there, that it's

23:42

that actually is the highlight of everything is Isaiah Bradley.

23:46

So if you guys watch Falcon and the Winter soldier, the show on Disney Plus,

23:49

you were introduced to Isaiah Bradley. He is a Captain America from the Korean War.

23:53

The second attempt at Steve Rogers.

23:55

And instead of being like heralded, this Isaiah Bradley is black.

24:00

And so when he does the same thing of like, betraying commands

24:03

to save lives, he is thrown in jail for 20 years.

24:06

And yeah. And so now Isaiah is retired

24:09

and just trying to ignore the white House and get away from it.

24:11

And he's brought in to and just his story

24:14

the way he's played a holy cow.

24:16

No joke. Like just near tears at a certain part for him.

24:21

I threw it up on on threads and just all the comments, like I was crying,

24:25

I was bawling. That one had me so hard.

24:27

Like there's so many just there's a part of it, Jordan.

24:31

Like, you know, when you have an older relative, like, I grew up with stuff like that

24:33

where they kind of get a little lost and confused.

24:35

There's a part where he's doing that. You're just like, don't tear my heart out.

24:38

I'm trying to watch a damn Marvel movie, guys.

24:40

It was really beautiful. Oh, man. Okay, so that kind of answers my second question

24:44

or my next question, but I'll see if you have any more.

24:47

Is what characters in this, if any, would you want to see either

24:50

carried on in other movies, have their own standalone movie or another series?

24:54

More of those characters. But so definitely I've obviously Isaiah Bradley, right.

24:57

We need to see him like in the 60s and 70s.

24:59

Like do a throwback. You can have Winter soldier be around because he's unfrozen frozen all the time.

25:05

And you can have Red Guardian from Thunderbolts coming up.

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But also The Sidewinder, who is part of the Serpent Society,

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which is just like a paramilitary and,

25:15

basically guns for hired, terrorist group.

25:18

We see him a lot. Played by John Connor. Esposito is Sidewinder, the leader of the group.

25:21

Let's get them. More like, just have them be random bad guys for people in other movies, but be blast.

25:28

Nice, I like it. All right. And final one, what's your rating on this?

25:32

I thought long hard about this, because going into this thing

25:35

I saw from reviewers that I generally trust like threes

25:40

and fives out of ten, after watching them, I'm like,

25:43

I don't understand why they didn't like this. And I know a lot of their complaints are that it's did it take any chances?

25:49

Oh, the braven, the bull, the well, it wasn't brave or bold.

25:51

You know what it was? It was a good movie to watch. It was fun. I'm giving it an eight out of ten.

25:56

No, no problems at all with this movie.

25:58

Like, when you're nitpicking, you get it down to eight.

26:02

But, I mean, like, if you're just looking for a good movie to watch on a Saturday, this is it.

26:05

This is so fun. That way. Nice, I like it.

26:09

I'm still definitely gonna watch it. I just have to tell you, you're probably watching it today, actually,

26:13

so that'll be good. So. Yeah, guys, what we're going to do now is cut over to Chad exactly

26:17

where we go into spoilers. So if you guys don't want spoilers, you guys can skip to the end.

26:20

We're going to go under the net. We'll do about 20, 15, 20 minutes of that right now.

26:27

This will start going through a couple more of the characters here.

26:30

I want to go to,

26:32

Larkin, who's our new Falcon,

26:34

and one of the notes I wrote down here is Sam improved on Steve.

26:39

And I think that's one thing that I have a problem with is Joaquin.

26:41

I don't think it is improving on Sam.

26:43

So, Steve, I mean, at a time

26:46

trying to feel like all humanity is nowadays.

26:49

But he missed that. Kind of like, it's why Sam is a counselor, right?

26:53

He missed that kind of relatability in a soldier's life and remembered, like, not sleeping in a soft bed.

26:59

It's hard to sleep in a soft bed that. Yeah, yeah.

27:01

Just like a marshmallow. You sink to the floor. Yeah.

27:03

I don't think Joaquin provides that for Sam.

27:06

Not yet. He is really cool to watch.

27:08

But I think as a person, as a Joaquin to Sam.

27:12

Not to say Falcon to Captain America.

27:14

I don't think there's that relationship in this one. What are your thoughts there, dude? That's a good criticism.

27:19

I didn't think about that at all, but I actually think that's really fair.

27:23

I think they try to show it a little bit because, like, walking's on the

27:26

computer, right? He's like, I tracked him. He's here.

27:28

Like, he's definitely more tech savvy.

27:31

So I think they tried to show that. But you're right.

27:33

Like he doesn't necessarily have the same support that Sam had for Steve.

27:38

And so yeah, there is there.

27:40

But I will say I he had some of the funniest lines in the movie for me.

27:45

Yeah. That was his job. Yeah, definitely. Yeah.

27:47

And hope you delivered it. Like I was like oh yeah, Bucky's hilarious.

27:52

And you know, I didn't really love the suit,

27:55

but I loved, like, their partners. Shit.

27:57

Yeah. You know, like, you ever we, you know, we're.

28:00

I feel like we're getting to that age now where there's, like, younger kids

28:03

who are in their 20s. And again, the so sad to say, like, yeah, but like, say like or even like teenagers.

28:09

Right. But then they say something or you just connect with it.

28:11

I mean like dude, that was like, you're on it.

28:14

Like you get it. I feel like that relationship was kind of there.

28:17

And so for me, it kind of reminded me of some like younger cousins I had or like

28:21

when there was kids that we would hire for some of my jobs and we bring them in

28:25

and they were just they were on it and they were just saying funny shit, and I so I liked it.

28:30

But I think you're so fair in saying, like,

28:32

he didn't really elevate him to grow past where he was already at.

28:37

Right. Like like a great example of this too, I think, in my opinion, is that man is outstanding and to me the best hero of all heroes.

28:42

But when you add a Robin to I think so.

28:45

That's a whole conversation to. So when you.

28:48

Add Robin to him and each robin's different

28:50

and what they add to him, but when you add a robin to them, it elevates Batman to this like father ship role in the

28:55

and it takes away the like I'm willing to die thing out of Batman a little bit,

28:59

which makes him a better hero. And that's one thing that I think every sidekick should do,

29:03

and this one might not miss the mark. That being said,

29:07

when he's flying alongside cap at the end and, you know, and they're

29:10

they're they're battling for that mean Tim.

29:12

Holy cow. Those two tandem was a lot of fun to watch.

29:15

That was like watching Top Gun. It was so much Top Gun pull out of this.

29:19

But yeah yeah. And it looked cool. It was just like, dang, seeing these two fly together.

29:24

And it's different than Iron Man. It's different than vision.

29:27

It's going to be different than century that we see coming up in the Thunderbolts.

29:31

But it just like is so cool.

29:33

And I love the distinction of just how they fly.

29:37

And they keep finding unique ways to make it look cool.

29:42

Yeah, it was just it was so awesome. But I really enjoyed it.

29:46

I agree though, I think that there could have been more that he could have done for

29:50

Sam's character. But I want to see more of him.

29:53

And I think also at the end, one of my favorite parts of the movie

29:57

is when after he gets hit, he gets exploded out by Celestial Island.

30:02

He's all bird. That conversation, you know, two,

30:06

guys of color trying to talk about.

30:10

We always have to be better. And, you know, I don't necessarily know if I understand that feeling, but I can.

30:16

I hear it, and I feel it.

30:18

And that feeling of like, hey, we always gotta

30:22

it's I'm just going to go there, man. I'm gonna say it.

30:24

I love this quote that I read a line that was like,

30:28

empathy or

30:31

I guess inclusion isn't saying that your life was hard

30:34

because of the color of your skin, or like,

30:36

you weren't giving opportunities to the color your skin.

30:38

It was because it. You're saying that the color of your skin wasn't a barrier to entry.

30:42

And we know who we're kind of talking about in that point.

30:45

But these guys relating to each other, being from diverse backgrounds

30:49

and saying and representing American also trying to just do their best, like that

30:52

last conversation when he's in the bed, just really, it touched me, I liked it.

30:57

I just wish there was more of that throughout the movie.

30:59

And I think there's definitely room to grow now. And the idea that, like, we're going to start The Avengers together,

31:03

those two go around, round people up, like knocking on,

31:06

you know, when they find vision, like hiding out in some random neighborhood, like, hey, buddy,

31:10

it's time to change colors and let's go. You know, you're dumping white vision and you're going back.

31:15

That would be incredible. Yeah. Awesome.

31:18

So let's let's go to to Ross a very big departure, in my opinion, from

31:22

the comic books, is the fact that he is trying his best to be a nice guy.

31:26

I mean, like, I can't think of a Ross did that

31:28

and I really enjoyed the Chekhov's gun in this, where he kept taking pills.

31:32

They didn't. They made sure the cameras stopped so you could see it.

31:35

He kept taking pills. You didn't know what they're for. You knew better was coming, of course, but there was such a good like,

31:40

I wish, I wish I was there with somebody who didn't know about Red Hawk at all.

31:43

And watching take those pills, you're like, oh, is he dying? It's like worse.

31:46

Yeah. He's not dying, unfortunately. Yeah.

31:49

It's so, I thought that was really, really good storytelling.

31:53

And then I talked to you off mic about how I feel like you can really feel the

31:57

additional filming. And I think a lot of that was the leader's calls to Henry Ford were some of those,

32:01

I think. And, well, I don't think they were like super impactful.

32:05

I think the reason they added them in is because it gave context to Henry

32:10

Ford's character being more usable in the next era of Marvel

32:14

and kind of like not just going to a bad guy like you.

32:18

They made sure that you saw that he was trying his best to fight

32:21

those urges to be the old Thunderbolt Ross.

32:24

Yeah, yeah. And I gave a lot of context to why the leader is a part of the story.

32:29

Yeah, it was cool. I think it really tied in.

32:31

Also, why we have the leader in this story, right.

32:34

Like a lot of people are saying, it kind of feels like Incredible Hulk 2.0.

32:38

And then it brings back, you know, we saw the blood drip into his head

32:43

at the end of Incredible Hulk, and you're like, okay, is that ever going to get paid off?

32:47

Well, they did some 17 years later, whatever it is now.

32:50

And yeah, so there was that it was cool, that connection.

32:54

But Harrison Ford, man, Harrison Ford still got it

33:00

when he's giving the speech to the whole UN or the whole.

33:03

Yeah. Everybody from all these different countries, he's talking about adamantium,

33:07

and he's having those conversations with Sam all stirred.

33:10

And then he also is showing this vulnerable side on the ship

33:13

of, like, I did this because I wanted to show my daughter I could be a better man.

33:18

And he's sad. And he was like, I'm dying.

33:21

Yeah. Dang, Harrison Ford, what a legend.

33:25

What a one of a kind surprise. As honestly, it's crazy. Me too.

33:29

But dude, I honestly was still surprised I get it is my bad.

33:32

I didn't watch the latest Indiana Jones. I tried to watch it, I didn't, I got to go back and watch it.

33:37

But yeah, and I didn't watch shrinking. My bad on that too. I know he's I haven't watched shrinking yet.

33:41

I was. Funny though. He's so funny and shrinking. Yeah.

33:44

But he's he's so he doesn't have a lot of range and shrinking okay.

33:48

In this movie I feel like they gave him range.

33:51

He goes from being like presidential. He goes to being stern. He goes to be emotional.

33:55

He goes to being angry. He goes being sad. Like it's like wow, Harrison Ford.

33:58

They let him open the and like go for it man.

34:01

And I was so impressed. I'm so thankful that they got him for this movie.

34:06

William Hurt would have been incredible to like no doubt because

34:09

he would have been able to do it too. But if you could have had anybody to kind of fill those shoes, God

34:14

had Harrison Ford do a good job in man. He chewed up scenery, I loved it.

34:19

I was like, man, that. Final, that final chat on the raft that his daughter comes in, I thought was

34:25

some really good resetting for the character.

34:28

And, yeah, Red Hulk has worked alongside the Avengers

34:31

and, you know, Thunderbolts, stuff like that in the past. It's definitely not, you know, priority.

34:36

But I think now we're we're all setting up Secret Wars.

34:38

And, you know, we'll talk about that a little more in the future. But, now I can imagine that he will be a part of Secret Wars.

34:45

Yeah. Me too, I can honestly, I can see him being a part of the Thunderbolts now,

34:49

because there is a bunch of them in those trailers.

34:52

That would be fucking wild, man.

34:54

Oh, I guess. That trailer is missing so much, but that's a conversation for another time.

35:00

One of the things is like Taskmaster is clearly dead in the first five minutes

35:03

to watch it. For sure, but I don't know.

35:06

I feel like there could be a Red Hulk showing in there.

35:09

Especially you got a bunch of people punching. Shoot, as you already said, you got a got. But anyway.

35:14

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, in a century. Yeah, exactly.

35:16

So, but he just did such a good job.

35:19

And, the only part where I was like, they could have done it

35:24

a little bit better is when he's hulking out at the stand.

35:28

I got to agree with some of the other reviewers

35:30

who I really respect and and just love what they do.

35:34

I really do wish they save some of that in the trailers, though.

35:37

I feel like we got too much Red Hulk, of course.

35:41

Where? Yeah, like it did kind of ruin that because you don't get a lot of footage.

35:45

Like, don't get me wrong, the fights epic and the cherry blossoms and everything,

35:49

but you, we saw so much of it in the trailers, just like, damn it.

35:53

Even even the fight for the show. I think we got a lot of that too.

35:56

And, you know, I hate to say this, but I think it's because they were like,

35:59

well, Sam's not going to tell us on his own.

36:01

And we need a whole we need to show that we're going

36:05

to be answering the Eternals question. And it's unfortunate that that's the case.

36:08

But in their defense, like you are changing a primary character

36:12

in The Avengers. So I get that not everybody's going to watch TV show.

36:15

They definitely should. But, yeah, so I think I think that's the reason for this one particularly.

36:20

They had to kind of like show all the cards, like, right, let's just see what order we play them in.

36:24

And but I think, yeah. That question is exposed.

36:27

Yeah, 100%. Okay. So if they had just shown the, transformation of the hand

36:33

burning the carpet behind the podium and then him almost before

36:36

he got over to the podium, that's all he showed. But instead they showed more of the leader.

36:41

Do you think it would have brought in just as much people or. No.

36:45

No, I'm probably not. But like. As a leader. Is it a no if if you're.

36:49

If you're a nerd to the degree like we are and you know, it was in the 2008 movie,

36:53

you might be like, oh, cool, they're answering back the old school one.

36:56

But I mean, and then then you'd be like, oh, he's in there, a whole villain.

37:00

Plus you've added, you know, so I would love for them to have the Red Hulk not appear in any of the ads.

37:04

I don't think it's possible. Yeah, sure.

37:07

I just I was hoping that if just a hand was enough.

37:09

That had been so cool. But. Yeah. He again, he he did it.

37:13

He crushed it. I just yeah, I didn't necessarily love that scene,

37:18

but the fight that breaks out from there is just epic.

37:21

Yeah. We can I want to talk a little bit more about the leader,

37:25

and I think we got to go in the Sam Wilson. Yeah, yeah.

37:28

The leaders, I thought the visual leader, they did a good job of making them

37:32

look pretty good for the comic book accuracy thing.

37:36

He obviously doesn't have, like, the same hair or whatever as the comic book.

37:39

But the. MCU, right?

37:42

Yeah. The more brainy.

37:44

Of the MCU, though, like, for the early days of the MCU, they wouldn't go there.

37:48

Like, if you guys remember, like back in those days, they were, like, afraid to show anything that looked silly

37:52

and so they wouldn't show. They would just show him as like a smart guy. Very good example

37:55

as Iron Man three, shying away on the villain at the last second.

37:59

And so, what's the name?

38:01

The Mandarin? No. Yeah. Well, they didn't have the Mandarin.

38:04

And then they went with, like, Killian, from AME, basically.

38:09

Yeah. So, I mean, like, they shied away at the last second.

38:11

They didn't really stick to what you see in the cargo because this was like, oh, that is what the leader would look like

38:15

if you were to make them live action, I think, and I do appreciate that.

38:18

And I think that he did a really good job of kind of like weaving himself in there.

38:21

And then we saw he was defeated and then he's like, all right,

38:24

well then I gotta, I gotta escalate, I gotta escalate, and there's like,

38:27

you go like this dude up. He's a dangerous guy.

38:29

And I love the fact that he's like,

38:31

also so smart that he can kind of see the probabilities of the future.

38:36

And I think, like, I would love to see him in a conversation

38:38

with, you know, in like Reed Richards in stuff like that.

38:41

That's going to be a good conversation in the future.

38:43

Yeah. Like, yeah, two super intelligent people.

38:47

Right? Like one is for good, one is for bad is always best.

38:50

Like, yeah, it just is going to be this explosion of like what's going to happen?

38:54

An immovable object with an unstoppable force, like what's going to happen here.

38:58

Yeah. But yeah, I think they could have.

39:01

We know Tim Blake Nelson has been in these amazing movies.

39:05

I think there's more they could have done with their his character.

39:08

I think there's more that they could have done to kind of

39:12

trick Sam, or just to have things, even when it seems like it's going their way.

39:16

It doesn't go their way. Yeah. I think there's more

39:18

they could could have done with him, but I didn't mind his his looks at all.

39:22

I but I thought looks were good. And yeah, I think it's smart that he's not dead at the end of the movie.

39:28

Yeah I can see him coming up in a lot more situations.

39:30

And you know, when you bring in all the other heroes that are still alive

39:34

and then you start working these plans and he's kind of manipulating the scenes

39:38

where every time they think they win, it's just kind of feeding more into his plan.

39:42

I would love that. I think that's so good.

39:44

But yeah. Yeah, I kind of just wish they developed him a little bit more. Bro.

39:48

You just blew my mind a little bit. There are coming now. They don't.

39:51

They hadn't done that in the first part of this. The Marvel because this feels like, you know getting the Avengers 2.0.

39:55

They're doing the Arkham thing now where they're saving all their villains instead of burning them up and so, like,

40:00

I just bring them back later. Whenever there's a breakup, though, the entire Avengers

40:03

movie is about to break out at The Craft or The Raft.

40:05

Like about damn time. Marvel did that because yeah, they keep, like, closing these doors forever.

40:10

And you're like, man, Ultron is a really good villain.

40:12

What is going on here? Locally? We're saying, oh, you got him back to.

40:15

But for a long time it didn't seem like that was going to happen.

40:17

And so that's cool. I like the idea that we're gonna have this kind of like little Arkham Asylum,

40:21

that we can just kind of nudge the door open every so often.

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We want a really cool Batman story. Yeah, definitely.

40:26

We don't even know who else is at the raft besides, Zemo.

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Zemo might have been spotted in there as well.

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But the raft is such a cool, interesting, prison

40:38

floating in the middle of the ocean. Yeah, where the most dangerous villains go.

40:41

I just think it's so cool.

40:43

But I think, there's so much more they need to do with the leader

40:47

in future movies. I agree, I agree, yeah, Sam Wilson.

40:51

Sam Wilson, I was I would like to talk about how they made sure to have it here too.

40:55

They acknowledge Sam's weakness. And you see it even in the fight scenes where Captain America,

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where Steve Rogers would like, jump out of, you know, Helicarrier land and like,

41:04

oh, that was rough. And then get up and fight. Sam definitely couldn't do that. When he took a hit. He took a hit.

41:08

The vibranium wings were heavy carrying in this fight against, Red Hulk.

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But I do appreciate that they didn't just try to make him suddenly stronger

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for no reason, because I think that was one of the concerns I saw online really early on was like,

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why is Sam losing that fight? Like, why would a Captain America lose that fight?

41:24

Basically? What, like when he's fighting a regular dude and it's like, no, he wins out.

41:27

But he's definitely not a super soldier.

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And that's why that really quick though, like it's not fun if he just wins every fight.

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By the way. Either. Yeah. Yeah.

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Like even enemy fighters who are at the top of their game will win every fight.

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Like. Yeah. What do you mean? Oh, of course.

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And also you're going to judges off of 10s in a trailer.

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Like just watch the movie. You see that happens, bro.

41:51

So, like, so. The people who complain about this movie already, you just get the vibe,

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like you have not seen this movie, then they're like, oh, it's, you know, this or that,

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or they're trying to cheapen out Captain America like, bro,

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watch the movie, watch his fight with Red Hulk.

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And that's exactly, in my opinion, how that fight should have gone

42:06

where he has to talk him down. It's exact same thing and nobody better at matter of fact, to me, it's

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arguably one of the best fights is Doctor Strange versus Dormammu,

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because, no, I ain't no way and held hostage beaten Dormammu.

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So he has to outthink the situation and calm and talk him through it.

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And I think that's exactly what Sam had to do. Ain't no way in hell he's he's going to beat Red Hulk.

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So you better figure out a way to talk him through. Luckily, the cherry blossoms are around. That was a good move.

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So he's, getting better. Like I. Say.

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Yeah. I love the call out to Doctor Strange.

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I think that was a perfect example, because in the MCU, you know,

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I can't speak for all other villains in the world. Whatever.

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But there's just some villains that you're just not powerful enough to beat.

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Doesn't even matter if you're Thor, you know, or Doctor Strange.

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Like, you just they don't have enough power.

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So they you have you have to outthink them. You have to out humanize yourself to, to be able to do it so that

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because I can't think on a human level and sometimes that is an advantage as much as it is a weakness.

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And so yes, it was so good.

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Also, like he's just brawling dudes in hallways.

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He's finding unique ways to hit the shield.

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Like he spin kicks it one time and a dude.

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Just yes. There's epic.

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He's way more acrobatic than Steve Rogers.

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And it's it's not better. Again, we're not talking better. It's like the vibranium adamantium.

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It's just different and it's cool. And I like seeing how they can use this metal frisbee in different ways.

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And I keep being amazed by it. It reminds me of video games and RPGs.

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You either choose to go more strength or more agility.

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One would strain one of the agility. So they're doing the things in different ways, and that's freaking cool.

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You know, the fact that we get to see both these, we're very lucky.

43:40

Yeah, exactly. And they set it up perfectly when they go to the, the gym with,

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with what's his name.

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Isaiah and Joaquin. Yeah. Exactly.

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And they're training and they show him, like, being super agile and still pulling the flags. Yeah.

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You're like, oh, this is different. This is not how Steve would do it, but it still works.

43:58

And I think they perfectly set it up. And he's more agile. He's more, acrobatic.

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And it just like it adds a lot of fun to all the fighting.

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Plus they're a little bit more visceral, because if you even go back to

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when your soldier cap's running around, he throws a chill

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shield in someone's chest, they get blasted or he stop, kick someone.

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They go flying over the railing. Yeah, Sam can't do that.

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So there's a few more punches and a few more kicks.

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I get thrown in there and I'm not mad at it.

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Yeah, I think for the next iteration of of Sam's,

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you know, Captain America, I want to take away the vibranium.

44:30

I know that they called out that they're going to bring more vibranium

44:32

in, but, like, hey, we have adamantium now let's use that.

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Let's let's change up that formula with the vibranium a little bit.

44:38

And I do like the idea of kind of isolating him a little bit where like,

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he has more gadgets. Like, I like the part where he's pushing something

44:45

and you're, like, kicked in the, the.

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What's it called? Red one or whatever. Look, Red wing.

44:50

Yeah. He kicks in like Red wings jets to help them push him.

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Like. That's cool. Do more of that. I was starting.

44:55

Yeah. Yes. That was so cool where you're like, okay, he's not super strong.

44:58

He can't just like, run through them. So he uses the jetpack to fly through them.

45:02

Yeah. Dude, that was awesome. That was I thought that was so cool.

45:05

Yeah. Or he uses Red wing and he attaches the shield to Red wing, so he.

45:09

So Red wing flies behind it. Dude. Oh, how cool is that? Where was I blocking the bullets?

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And he's like, just ahead. Oh my God.

45:15

I was like that is fucking cool. Yeah.

45:18

Oh yeah. Okay.

45:20

So we get the mine, white different air Force pilots, right?

45:25

Yeah. And he busted through the window that's open. Right.

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And he pulls a guy out, and then he has to pull up, but he can't.

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He doesn't have enough strength. He's human. He's like, gravity's pulling him down, right? Yeah. We're forcing.

45:35

He gets it. So he uses the slingshot, the the grappling cable to pull on the

45:40

the control yoke. Dude. So smart.

45:42

I love that. I thought that was. And Red wing, you know, the two versions went out.

45:46

They started stabilizing one of the wings and stuff like that.

45:49

It's just good to see the gadgets. Yeah. That's smart. I'm doing this actually really smart.

45:53

Like a big knowing a little bit about aviation, man.

45:55

That's like she like, oh that's really clever.

45:58

That's a clever way to do it. And it's nothing that Steve would have been able to do.

46:01

He would have done it in a completely different way. You might have been able to just strong arm the controller.

46:06

You would have been cool too, but it's just different.

46:08

And I love that showing the difference. And he still and

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he's still doing the exact same things, just in a completely different way.

46:15

Steve Rogers taking down a fighter jet is like

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such a staple for Marvel in the comic books in the MCU.

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They've done it. I, I think it's Civil War. When he did it last time I read it, I was just like, that's the coolest move

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Rogers could ever possibly do. Yeah, he always like I think of them in Civil War,

46:30

like, takes him out to lunch afterwards. It's like, that's my boy.

46:32

You know? So yeah, it's just such a cool move to see this version.

46:36

I just see him as neat. Yeah. The Quinjet with the the shield going, baby, break it all.

46:41

Oh, that was that. I just watched it again last night.

46:44

I was like, I forgot how good this is. It's such a good movie. What a soldier. Yeah.

46:48

Oh, man. Sam, Sam had a lot, a lot to do with it.

46:51

And even when he's not all, suited up and everything, you know,

46:56

there's a part where they have to also establish him outside of the tech.

47:00

And I think they did it with that part.

47:02

We even talk about Giancarlo Esposito playing Sidewinder

47:04

from the Serpent Society. He's driving the truck, pulls around the corner.

47:08

The guy starts unloading on him, throws a grenade in there.

47:11

Did Sam get out? Yes he did. And just like, takes an ax to the chest and he just goes hand, hand.

47:17

Yeah. And I think they established, like, the guy's super capable

47:20

whether he has the wings or not. And I just, I thought that was dope.

47:24

I think they just, he just he had so much to prove.

47:32

All right. We are back with the freaks, guys.

47:35

So Jonathan, we're going to be closing things out with our recommendations for the week.

47:39

What is your recommendation for.

47:41

Is, Daredevil? I don't know, I've been watching rewatching, the previous seasons of Daredevil. So.

47:46

Good. And remember, I know we have the new season

47:50

coming out soon or the new series, you know, when that's coming out.

47:53

Is that much. Gosh. Thank you. John. Yeah. It's March, maybe early April.

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Yeah. All the flies I here.

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So yeah, we're just a handful of weeks away. So definitely if you haven't caught up on that, now's the time.

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Jump in so you can get it all before the new season starts.

48:08

Yeah. For me, this week in comic books, we have new gods coming out again.

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New gods is one of the old school titles.

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Jack Kirby, from DC

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and DC has been doing this new thing where they're bringing back some old titles starting at number one and stuff.

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New gods is coming back. And so, it's it's a good way to start getting into, you know,

48:29

just really not seen often. DC side. Dark side is from the New Gods.

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Like the villain for Superman, he's a new god, person.

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So check that out, guys. It's over on DC.

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And make sure you call your bookshop and set up when they pull this,

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you know, you go in on Wednesday, you go in like once a month and collect all the books again about that a month.

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That's the way I like to do it. So check that out guys.

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Again, new gods from DC number one this week on Wednesday.

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All right guys I appreciate you hanging out with us.